Garden thread.

[glenn kangiser]

That's because so many are stolen daily there are a lot to choose from.  They think nothing of breaking your windows out and stealing your stereo so they can get money for drugs - in the daytime right on a main street.

One of the worst places in the US.

[PEG688]

Ya ya all that chatter is it  about what gardens  :-/

Update 17 June 2007,

Spud's , lettuce , onions , strawberry's doing good , Radish's a flop again this year  






A few garden tools I turned some years ago  and a big snail  






So enought about Fesno   I thought it was a concrete working trowel  

A Fresno ,

 

[glenn kangiser]

Fresno Trowel - the good thing from Fresno. :-/

Well, the things you got growing look good, PEG.

[fourx]

You didn't get a problem with grass seeds germinating in the rich load of soil you got then, it seems, like I wondered when you first put it on the garden..looks like you work it too much for them to get going. Lettuce look good- I have a plot of the same types, mignonette and oakleaf.
So, where is this f-----ing global warming? On Friday here it never got above 10 degrees ( around 50 F) all day, which is no doubt a balmy day to some of you folk, but unheard of here. A lady 78 who lives near my office in town can't remember a June day like it in her lifetime. No way would I have cathedral ceilings in a cold climate..the gas heater we use didn't come anywhere near heating the place.

[PEG688]

 I got a lil grass tryin to grow , but[highlight] I LIKE to weed[/highlight] , and water. Sort of rest for the soul I guess

In fact I have to use restrain with watering , I sort of over do it some what My Calalilly's sort of took a hit , so I gotta remember to SKIP them when I water  

 Still quite cool here as well , they say this week we should get some 80 deg. F weather , we'll see , it's low 60's here and has been for a week . We did get a lil Indian summer sort of a month ago , dryer and warmer than "normal for us" which really isn't very warm or dry , just unussual for us that early.

Should be your winter , are you South or Northern Oz?

[glenn kangiser]

Coldest it got here last night was 72F - has been 77 some nights -- note -- this is the low. Things grow pretty good though.

[glenn kangiser]

Our garden continues to grow.  We have some peppers ready and squash coming on.  



Note the large troglodyte growing by the tomatoes.  Anybody know a good way to get rid of them? :-?

[PEG688]

And lots of um , thier hard to hit , them troglodyte's  

[glenn kangiser]

That may be effective.  Would it possibly require a bunker buster? :-/

[PEG688]

That may be effective.  Would it possibly require a bunker buster? :-/

Check out the properties line  

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/[highlight]Bunker[/highlight]/7316/chlkbomber.jpg

 

[fourx]

It really is an example, Glenn, of just what can be done in the toughest soil with a little tender loving care and lateral thinking. Our Aboriginal people here, those who live in remote outstations in arid zones supported by welfare, say that there is no point in trying to grow their own vegetables because the soil conditions are too tough-I wish they could see these pics.
PEG ( weird names you people give your kids- although Newt is even more strange) I'm in the top half,  halfway up the right-hand side if you look at a map, where in usual circumstances right now days are cloudless and around 22 C, nights can drop to 3 or 4 C but as long as the sun shines heating costs, with a little thought in housing design, are almost nothing. To have no sun combined with a wind blowing off the snow on the mountains 100 K's west, and have that all day, is very unusual, and very uncomfortable. Most Aussies build their homes to deal with the heat, not the cold, in areas north of Sydney.

[glenn kangiser]

Dang, PEG -- I think you got me PEGGED.  (Pete - PEG is his initials - He is one of the manliest guys I know-- darn it -- that doesn't sound good for the guys I hang out with.  Maybe I better rephrase that. :-?)

Pete, if the people were educated to know that horse manure is the perfect compost to soil material possibly they could help themselves.  It can go as fast as one month from poo-poo to soil if simply dampened and turned daily to weekly.  It is the perfect ratio of carbon to nitrogen for composting.  It is usually available free.

All that is necessary after that is the desire to do it. :-/

[PEG688]

Ya Fourx , you folks sure do have funny names   Oz , down under , Bruce , Crokie , Dingos , Wallabees  , and well wallabee Bruce ta you gad daymate , etc,  etc .

Yup Glenn's read the thread , Paul Edward Girouard  AKA PEG_ 688   But ya Fourx thats a common name round here , ahyup!

  So  eh GADday Bruce Ya I know it's spelled wrong Glenn , what/ how do you and Joneysdownunder write it?? BTW another "common name  that eh Joneysdownunder, "Wallabee Bruce , why I oughta ...............  

[glenn kangiser]

It's, "G'day mate."  Crikey. :-/

[fourx]

In fact, I have never heard an aussie say Crikey to another, aside from that croc-hunter dickhead, just as I have never seen an aussie drink Fosters..the problem stems from those convict genes, PEG- way too tight for comfort- and the false marketing of a country which is nothing at all like the commercials say it is....  But, get ya in a pair of budgie-smuggelers, PEG,  or dressed up like a pox-doctors clerk, with a tinnie in your hand at a barbie, hanging round like a fart in a phonebox and not shooting through like a Bondi tram and, in between your trips tp shake hands with the wife's best friend and point percy at the porcelain I'd be flat out like a lizard drinking and busier than a Bagdad brickie in tellin if you were a ridgi-didge sand-groper, crow-eater, or one of the other many types of pie and dead-horse loving home-bred fair-dinkum sixth-generation knee-trembler experts who hates freckle-punchers, pillow-biters, shirt-lifters, counter-jumpers lezzos and turd-burglers to the extent that the very thought of them makes him park a tiger, have a technicolour yawn and call Herb on the Great White Telephone, and I reckon you'l fit right in like a lawyer at a car crash. With a name like PEG, mate, the Shielas are gonna be all over you like blow flies on a dead sheep.
Given our common heritage of the English language, a translation for my Northern friends is, I'm sure,  unnecessary.

[glenn kangiser]

I love it.  Culture overflowing from all over the world.

[benevolance]

too bad there is no water in OZ... Driest place on earth...And getting drier... a lot drier...

Read that unless it rains like boblical flood rain they are going to start a recycling system were sewage will be treated for drinking water in many parts of oz...

water is the reason people do not bother to compost and make soil in OZ.... I mean in Egypt they turn the nile delta into the most fertile soil in the world...It was barren desert before irrigation....If you have the water it is easy to make soil even out of 100% SAND OR 100% CLAY

[fourx]

Egypt? Before the goats and cattle grazing ate it out, it was one of the most fertile areas on Earth- the source of much of the written language was the shape of cattle bones, including the Anh...
DRY? Oz- driest place on Earth- sure
... with the Greenies moaning like an old dingo at the full moon that """We're RUINED!"", and "It's the end, Scotty- beam me up"" while outside right now the rain pours down and I sit here, thousands upon thousands of miles away, in front of the heater ( Global warming! Come Back! All is forgiven!) stroking my pussies ( much the same as ladies in Chernobyl are doing right now, I guess..) and, as a seriel compost-maker from way back, wondering what all the fuss is about.
Really, the best gardens of all, as I have seen countless times in PNG, in China, in Kashmir on the floating gardens, in Indonesia and Malaysia and Thailand and the Phillipines is human poop, and plenty of it.
Lucky I have a few horses around.

[glenn kangiser]

...and I wonder why Asian food makes my stomach gurgle.  :-?:-/

[glenn kangiser]

I wanted some straw to put on my potato plants the other day so went to a bunch of old decomposing straw bales a tarp blew off of a couple years ago.  As I started to load it into the wheelbarrow to move, I struck a bonanza.  The mother of all worm piles.  They liked the straw as it held moisture , so I loaded thousands of them and the straw ant took them to the garden.  Nothing better than our wormy little friends to loosen and improve the soil and give us nice worm castings.  Yummy.

[fishing_guy]

Looks like bait to me Glenn.

A good excuse to go fishing!

[glenn kangiser]

These are fairly small guys - a bit skinny to get on a hook but, hey -- they'd probably catch a fish if it wasn't too choosy.  

[glenn kangiser]

I was just thinking about it -- they did just stock our river with some fairly nice fish--



but who wants to fish for plants? :-?

http://www.goldrushcam.com/2007/Mariposa%20News/mariposa30.htm

[benevolance]

damn I love trout for supper.. nothing better than fresh fish that you caught yourself

Saddens me that they have to stock these rivers to keep a fish population when for thousands and thousands of years there was no problem until we polluted it and diverted most of the water out of the rivers... built dams etc...

Just shows how bad the situation is when the fishing club has to raise money and stock the river so they can go fishing

[peg_688]

OK back to the garden ,

new radish's coming up and spinach for supper,

 



Nothing like picking spinach in the rain   Well maybe there is  :-/